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Post by firefoot17 Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:33 pm

wouldent the book always be updated by strangers?
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Post by Dot145 Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:12 am

Do strangers (or anything at all) usually update your books? Unless it was electronic AND connected to the internet (we already talked about this T_T), edits would only mean new editions would be released
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Post by wow135 Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:54 pm

or maybe someone came to your house and.. nvm.. XD
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Post by firefoot17 Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:25 pm

maybe they DO
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Post by Dot145 Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:27 pm

Uh, awky.
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Post by firefoot17 Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:28 pm

yes very akwy
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Post by SlayerSl123 Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:32 pm

Well people make fake wikipedia stuff that people might have been using for school work...so basicly we can call the book: Fail Grade Book

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Post by Dot145 Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:55 pm

Oh.
My.
Beeswax.

I have a lot to explain to you, Slayer, and I will explain when I get home. Wikipedia is an incredible place and nearly all of the articles contain completely accurate and complete information. No questions asked.
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Post by SlayerSl123 Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:55 am

Yes but many stuff include fake stuff, its smaller stuff that usually are fake

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Post by wow135 Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:35 pm

My ip got banned from wikipedia for two years... only one year left!
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Post by Dot145 Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:47 pm

Okay. I finally have time to explain Wikipedia.

First of all, Wikipedia is a site run completely by volunteers. No one, at all, gets paid for Wikipedia. Second, there are literally millions of volunteers that help to make Wikipedia a better place. I am one of those. There's a phenomenon that was recently discovered known as the "wiki effect". Basically, on a site where anyone can edit information, the information is just as accurate and probably even higher quality because the amount of people who mess up those information for idiotic and malicious intent are much fewer in number than the good, quality volunteers who want Wikipedia to be a better place. There are hundreds of moderators on 24/7 (they cycle on and off, of course, but not on a specified schedule or anything of that kind) and most unregistered edits are instantly checked and, if there is any doubt about the content, are likely to be swiftly reverted. Edits from users with accounts have more trust put in them, but people are still on the edit literally in a few seconds, testing for accuracy. Overall, this means that Wikipedia is as reliable source.

Of course, it's true that not every article is correct. But those articles have tags on them specifically saying that the article's information is disputed.

tl;dr Wikipedia is much, much more reliable than many people would like to admit.
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